actually this is prety much usseless...
the company that made this will end up as a patent troll, the technology is going to stand still in time because everybody will be ban by a court so... why waste our time...

It was developed for DARPA you tit. Chances are, if it works as advertised and isn't prohibitively expensive to make, it'll end up in some military application at first, hopefully followed by civilian applications.

Thanks, @Emexrulsier - you're right, I did miss some of those implications. Since it's nickel, super light weight tracks to the extremely thin walls, so the need for laser precision also makes sense. Does the elasticity come from the super-thin walls, then? Regular honeycomb materials take a *lot* pressure to deform. I wonder how this thin-wall honeycomb compares.